Agreement quickly reached in Steamboat Springs stabbing case

The case against a woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend last week in Steamboat Springs has been resolved quickly.

"This case took a different route than I thought it would have," Judge James Garrecht said at the end of a plea hearing Wednesday. "I'll leave it at that."

Laura Vanessa Latorre-Sanchez originally was arrested March 12 on suspicion of felony second-degree assault related to domestic violence. She was formally charged by the Routt County District Attorney's Office with reckless endangerment, a Class 3 misdemeanor. Sanchez spent four days in jail before being released from custody.

In court, she pleaded guilty to third-degree trespassing on agricultural land, which had nothing to do with the allegations. Such a plea is known as "legal fiction," and Routt County Chief Deputy District Attorney Matt Karzen said after the hearing that the Class 3 misdemeanor plea resulted in the desired outcome.

The charge Sanchez pleaded guilty to also could help her keep her immigration status in the United States. Karzen said Sanchez is in the country legally with a green card.

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